AP Music Theory resources
AP Music Theory practice guides
Four guides covering how to build a practice test, work through melodic and harmonic dictation, prepare a sight-singing melody, and check a part-writing answer. Each one links to the practice tasks that train the same decisions.
Guides
Build a diagnostic that covers the exam task families, then turn each miss into a smaller decision you can train and retest.
Repeatable listening passes for melodic contour, rhythm, outer voices, cadences, and Roman numerals.
Use the preparation window on tonic, meter, leaps, and cadence, then hold the pulse through mistakes.
Plan the harmony, frame the outer voices, and audit spacing, doubling, parallels, and resolution in a fixed order.
Start practising
Choose a task from the complete AP Music Theory practice map.
Assemble focused sections or a full multi-section run.
Pick aural and nonaural MCQ practice by skill category.
Melodic and harmonic dictation, listening MCQ, and intervals.
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